Unsolvable Problems About Small Cancellation and Word Hyperbolic Groups

DOI10.1112/blms/26.1.97zbMath0810.20025WikidataQ124884635 ScholiaQ124884635MaRDI QIDQ4289478

Charles F. III Miller, Hamish Short, Gilbert Baumslag

Publication date: 19 May 1994

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/26.1.97

zbMATH Keywords

word hyperbolic groups; finitely presented; small cancellation groups; finitely generated subgroup; integral homology group; algorithmic problems; recursively unsolvable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20J05: Homological methods in group theory

20F10: Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects)

03D80: Applications of computability and recursion theory

20F06: Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams

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